your beautiful eyes_?" Hence Mrs. E.L.

's speech in
the dream. "You have
always had such beautiful eyes," means nothing but
"people always do
everything to you for love of you; you have had _ev
erything for
nothing_." The contrary is, of course, the truth; I
have always paid
dearly for whatever kindness others have shown me.
Still, the fact that
_I had a ride for nothing_ yesterday when my friend
drove me home in his
cab must have made an impression upon me.

In any case, the friend whose guests we were yester

day has often made me
his debtor. Recently I allowed an opportunity of re
quiting him to go by.
He has had only one present from me, an antique sha
wl, upon which eyes
are painted all round, a so-called Occhiale, as a _
charm_ against the
_Malocchio_. Moreover, he is an _eye specialist_. T
hat same evening I
had asked him after a patient whom I had sent to hi
m for _glasses_.

As I remarked, nearly all parts of the dream have b

een brought into this
new connection. I still might ask why in the dream
it was _spinach_
that was served up. Because spinach called up a lit
tle scene which
recently occurred at our table. A child, whose _bea
utiful eyes_ are
really deserving of praise, refused to eat spinach.
As a child I was
just the same; for a long time I loathed _spinach_,
until in later life
my tastes altered, and it became one of my favorite
dishes. The mention
of this dish brings my own childhood and that of my